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will gentrify

  • future tense
    of gentrify.
    gentrify
    verb (used with object)
    to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.

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“Looking at where I live right now, it’s like they want to push us out farther and, well, it will gentrify the community,” said Ms. Wiley, the president of an organization opposing the development.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021

In other words, a process is at work that will be familiar from some American cities: If you can’t expand the housing stock quickly enough, the center will gentrify.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2018